Visa Issue Impacts 2004 March MeetingHolders of F-1 visas particularly at risk. The APS has set up a special Web site to handle queries and difficulties facing foreign students, post-docs and scientists interested in attending Montreal meeting.

Roman Czujko, Director of the Statistical Research Center at the American Institute of Physics, addresses the Conference on Increasing Diversity in the Earth & Space Sciences, held at the American Center for Physics in College Park, MD in June. He pointed out that for every 1000 African-Americans earning a Bachelor’s degree, only 0.5 are in the Geosciences, whereas 1.5 are in physics. For Hispanics, the analogous numbers are 1.7 and 1.8 respectively.